Hibernation

 

July, and the heating is on!

1. It is two degrees colder today than yesterday 

2. My body is dealing with the jag, which I expected.

Keeping a low profile today!

Orchids and skies

 Back on the turbo trainer for nearly half an hour...it feels cold out there, but it is actually 14⁰ , minus 4⁰ windchill. Not what you need after nearly two weeks of high 20s!!

On my way out this afternoon I photographed my front lawn "meadow"...I must get some fresh Yellow Rattle seed from my daughter, that will dissuade the grass and let the other plants thrive!!

I started listing a couple of seat posts on fleabay..this took ages as the tablet wasn't cooperating to get the photos...so I had to take new ones eventually. 

But it was fortunate...as I would otherwise have been in bed and missed this...

Return

 

A return to drawing...wheat and barley.

Not easy after a break.

The weather is back to cold wet and windy..so I am kicking my heels around the house. 

So many things to do, yet I want to get the next Celebration done first, on the 21st of this month... July already...

I have written cards to a couple of old friends of Pirate's...one we stayed with in NZ the other an old workmate in California who used to live in Ayrshire.  Plus a card to the widow of a workmate of his..he lived five miles away from here and I'm glad I called past them a little while after Pirate died.  He was a lifetime smoker of cigarettes and it was obvious then that he was seriously ill and failing. 

This afternoon I get the second one of the two part shingles jag. I reacted to the first a little, which was ok...you don't want no reaction as you need to know that your body is working against something "foreign"...but you don't want over-reaction either.  It isn't a "live" immunisation which is good. Once you've had chicken pox the virus sits there in your system until you get over stressed. I had it 45 years ago and I don't need anything like that again!!